No Wif-Fi for 3rd-party developers until 2007

At the bottom of a recent IGN article is the bombshell news that Nintendo's 3rd party titles wont support online play until 2007!

Gamers hoping for an online component, however, are in for bad news, because one isn't planned. Activision would not say why, but IGN has separately learned from multiple development sources that Nintendo will not release Wii Wi-Fi Connection libraries to third parties until early 2007, which means that no third party launch title will have an online mode.

Wow this is a pretty big revelation and may indeed affect sales of the Wii's third party titles given the huge deman for online gaming.